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2068

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The depths of winter

upon us. Christmas and
are passed and now its the
uphill pull to Spring. Just
time of year 'real sinclarions’ have
been waiting for - now we can
submerge ourselves in our favourite
passtime and no one can give us a
hard time ( read wives ог other
"significant others’). I hope Santa
brought you some interesting T/S
goodies. If not, a couple of things
in this months newsletter might keep
you busy for a while. As the last
issue ended up mostly articles and
listings for the 1000, this issue
Will Бе mostly stuff for the 2968.
I've been keeping some really good
reprints for just such an issue so

are
New

finally
Years
long
the

here they are. Of course no
ZXAppeal would be complete without
one of Harvey's pearls so we also

have a report on
into GLdom.
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Bimonthly?

~----I’m not a magician.
these issues appear like magic each
month. I feel to have a newsletter
that we can call our own and be
proud of requires at least 50%
original material. The reprints are
a good and necessary way for us to
find qut what other groups are doing
but if they become the major portion
of our newsletter what does this say
for our enthusiasm. Our newsletter
has a first rate reputation within
the greateer T/S community and І
would not like us to become just
another reprint newsletter and lose
that reputation. It is becoming
apparent that our group is not able,
or is unwilling, to produce
sufficient original material to
sustain a monthly newsletter. I
think that enough new material will
continue to come forward to support
a GOOD bi-monthly newsletter. My
view is that a vibrant and energetic
newsletter keeps the momentum
rolling in a user group. But it's
sort of like the chicken and the egg

his latest forays

I can't make

же only an enthusiastic and
contributing membership will keep a
newsletter, and thusly а group,
going. At this stage I propose that
the newsletter go to а bi-monthly
schedule and I would like to see
some positive discussion on this
subject at the next meeting.

KKEKKKEKEEE KEE EKEKEKEKKEE KEKE

BITS & PIECES
...in the Oct/Nov issue we reported

that 20685 were available in a
package deal with а 2040 and some
carts and cassettes from the

Brooklyn Closeout Corp.
NY for US$139.99.
this same outlet is
2868s at 115%85.00. These are NEW
units and at this price now is the
time to get that backup unit.

...the tickets to the GREAT Ө DRAW
II are going briskly with many
out-of-towners sending their 2 bucks
in by mail. If you haven't bought
your ticket yet make sure you see
Rusty at the meeting.

...anyone seen or spoken to John E.
lately? The CCATS{Oregon) group
reports that WEYMIL has stopped
carrying T/S related wares and is
now solely MS-DOS. Maybe this is
just another test by the ZEEPER to
see how long we can hang in there.
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If the renewal rate is an indicator

in Brooklyn,
Now we hear that
pricing single

of the interest still remaining
within our group, we're in great
shape.

RENEWING MEMBERS:

Ken Gamey, Gale Winterburn,
Rusty Townsend, Harvey Taylor,
Don Walterman, D.T.Couzens,
Vince Lee, B.G.Watts,

Dave Ross, Ken Grant,

Eric Sakara, Louis Montminy,
Gerd Breunung, Alex Pezarro,
Bill Rutter, Ken Abramson,
N.C.Trylsson, A.Boisvert,
Marie Kendall, Hugh Polley.

IF YOU GET THE DREADED EXPIRY NOTICE
BE SURE TO RENEW AT THE MEETING.

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December Hinutes

- by your 'umble scribe

The meeting was opened at 19:14
with 21 souls present & а couple
straggled in later. Ken had a

correction to last month's minutes
with appropriate barbs. It seems that
actually it was Marcio who had to get
the boost. Meanwhile back on the
poetic justice front, Ken got
rearended, oh intrepid sociological
automobile buff who is figuring out
what this all means.

He had a visitor Grant Newsham who
greatly enjoyed making Ken's jaw drop
when he announced that he had a 84.

Ken told us about a couple of items
he had received from Fred Nachbaur.
One was a Wico Trackball Fred had
received from Zebra in the hopes that
he would develop some software for
it. This has become a donation to the
hardware SIG. The trackball and
interface were passed around. Also
included was a Fourier analysis
program for the 2Х81 done in Hi-Res.

Ken then told us that the Skutrain
tour was booked for Dec 22/87 & there
was no more room, to Gerd's dismay.

Kar| Brown at UUI is giving another
robotics course starting this Jan
18/88. Course fee is $165.88. Don't
be late!

Rt this point Rustu Townsend, our
euer practical UP, held a little sale
of the items he had won last month.
Chung Chow got a 2040 printer on the
cheap. Vince Lee got a 16k Rampack.
Amazingly at the end of the night,
Rusty had scrounged $49.00.

Doing his bit for the Yule tide
spirit, Ken at this point broke out
the Mandarin oranges and the candies.
These made the rounds several times
during the rest of the meeting.

Rod Humphreus stood to tell us we
have $631.72 in the old credit union
with printing costs to be subtracted
& miscellaneous credits uet to be
added. To his great surprise, Rod has
received 3 member profiles. Вод
mentioned that the fanatics at
Quantum Computing have developed a
68020 board for the 01. Also starting
in November, the monthly minutes wi | |
be posted on CityLink [ 504-222-2080
« Room 6081, Board 12 21. Y'all call

in, now, ya hear! Chung Chow
mentioned at this point that he ran
across a placa in Seattla salling

dead 205875 for $10.00 - he picked up
two.

Harry "two dollar
stood to tell us the hardware group
is still meeting. It seems that at
the last meeting, a certain black box
with 2 dials, from Rois Harder's sale
disappeared. After a bit of group
mulling, it turned out that the item
had been sold twice. Gerd & Uince are
working it out.

It was mentioned that the 32K NUM
workshop with Milf was off. Instead
Wilf is making a DIY board for the
club available.

lan the librarian stood to tell us

special" Slot

things were fine with the library &
keep those goodies a comin. During
the library discussion it became

evident the consensus was that a 6 to
| copying booster was not needed.
There was а protracted discussion
about the pro & con of OSave % SDS,
tape dropouts & tape tupes.

Harvey had brought some QOL
information & mentioned that Steve

Ciarcia from Byte is starting a
hardware specific newsletter. Не
donated 3 copies of Modern

Electronics to the library & told the
group about his subscription problems
with them.

Eric Sakara stood to tell the group
about an amazing article he had seen
іп Whole Earth Review #54 (22). Some
quu in the states had 4 computers on
his greatly modi f ied bicucle.
Including such items as 8 keys on
each handle bar so he can type as he
rides!

Ken, е! Supremo, at this point
raised the point that in the past we
had had а presentation at each
meeting & wondered if we wished to
continue doing so. It was the general

PLAYING WITH ELECTRICITY
| Dec 29/87
-Harvey Taylor

In May/June/87 Byte magazine, Steve
Ciarcia described a video digitizer
project. After a good deal of
hesitation, І decided to go with this
system on my QL. The deciding factor
in my mind was that 1 could use this
system with any computer with a serial

port. The digitizer itself is well
described in those articles so I will
only discuss the software I have

written to drive the board.
Getting the Circuit Cellar Inc.
digitizer to use with the OL meant

that 1 had to write a software driver
to control the board & display the
information received. To begin at the
beginning, this turns out to be
another case where one runs afoul of
the cheap SERial ports оп the Qh.

opecifically, the board transmits data
at the North American norm of 8 data
bits, no parity, 1 stop bit. Тһе
problem which arises is that at high
speed (read 9600 baud), the QL wants
at least 1 1/2 stop bits. This means
that until I am able to modify the
initialization sequence of the CCI
board to use 2 stop bits, 1 must
transfer data from the CCI board to
the QL at a mere 2400 baud. One video
field is digitized to 62464 bytes. At
2400 baud, it takes about 4 or 5
minutes to transmit the whole field.
It only seems like forever.

consensus that the group did so
desire. Ken then raised the question
of what presentations we would like
to see. He mentioned that Wilf Rigter
had given presentations in the past &
that Harvey had agreed to do a
Telecomm talk. If uou have any
suggestions, let Ken know.

Rt this point Harveu was allowed to
make a fool of himself explaining how
Full Duplex modem communication was
just like two people talking on the
phone at the same time - if one is
breathing a Helium based atmosphere &
the other an Rrgon based. There was
much talk of stop bits & parity &

such then the meeting dissolved to

general mayhem & madness.
>eof

The CCI board digfitizes to
[0-63], while the QL displays at most
3 bits [9-7]. One of the -first
requirements then, was to define a
method of Mapping the 0-63 CCI range
into the QL 0-7 range. I wrote a
function which takes either preset
values (Linear, Square % Exponential)
or User defined values and uses them

6 bits

as Limits to define the Mapping
process. The colours which аге uscd
can be simply 0-7 or set up апу way

one wishes.

Once you have the information in the
computer, it is useful to he able to
analyze it. One of the primary methods
which is used in the Image Processing
world is with a special graph called a
Histogram. This is a plotting of Pixel
values [ 0-63 in this case | versus
number of pixels. A quick look at this
graph will tell you where the values
of your screen are bunched.

The fun starts when once
the information in the computer you
can begin to modify it. There аге a
variety of mathematical filters
described in the literature. (See the
bibiography below.) Among these are
Low & High Pass, Laplace edge
enhancement and median value filters.
One might also wish to spread the
Histogram out so that the full range
of shades is used. This might look
like a similar operation to choosing a
narrow mapping, however once you have
modified the data you can apply the
other filters to the data in a way

you have

which only
not allow.

In all of these processes it is
too easy to generate garbage. One
Ery different techniques to sce comes
out. 1f the Black/White ‘settings on
the ССІ board are set too closely
together, it is difficult to do much
of anything with the narrow range of
values produced.

The Median value filter
used primarily to remove
of noise in the video

changing the mapping

would be
the effects

info; see
Picture t1. The Low Pass filter tends
to smooth out values; see Picture i2.
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Ciarcia - Byte Magazine, Мау/
June /87
The CRT Controller
Handbook, Osborne 19840
Image Processing — Byte Mag Theme
March /87
Digital Image
Prentice-Hall 1984

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Reprinted from the July/Aug87 issue of the SINCUS NEWS

GETT ING THE RIGHT PROFORT I ONS

-Wes Brzozowski, SINCUS
Before reading too far into this, go grab a newspaper or some
other publication that has print laid out in narrow columns. Count

the number of letters and blank spaces on severa! lines. ` Chances
аге, you'll find that each line contains a DIFFERENT number of
characters. |

This is done with a method called Proportional Printing. It
turns out that fat characters like M take take up a whole lot more
space than the tiny letter i, so each character is given only as
much room as it needs. Not only is this much more pleasing to the
eye, it allows a surprising amount of extra text to be squeezed
into the same amount of space. - т, |

Our Т520685 normally display 32 or 64 (and now 85) columns of
text, with each character taking up the same width, no matter what
its size. It seems that we should be able to improve this
somewhat.

Actually, the job has already been done for us. In the Nov.
1985 issue of YOUR SPECTRUM, in the article "All Out of
Proportion", such a program is given. Unfortunately, it does have
a number of defficiences. I've corrected as many of these "TM
practical (though thay can still be annoying at times) and
presented it here for your use. Note that the Spectrum program and
my perversion of it here are radically different in many ways. If
you've got the old version, you'll still have to completely retype
it for the TS2068. Still, they do function somewhat alike, and you
might find the text of that articie to be helpful. |

For those who have that original article, the main differences
are: 1) the code is modified to run on a TS2068, 2) machine code is
initially entered through DATA statements, eliminating the need for
a hex loader, 3) the character fonts are MUCH improved, and you
don't have to type in the pixel patterns for each, because my
program derives the patterns from the Timex patterns; already in
КОМ, 4) the code works as in OVER О, rather than OVER 1, so if you
print over a space that already contains text, you won't get such
an awful mess, and 5) the TAB function is also implemented іп the
proportional mode. 5 | | |

This article contains two programs; type in and RUN the first
one. After a long wait, it will SAVE the true proportional printing
program to tape. When you reload that one (no waiting required,
from here on) you'll be ready to begin. | | |

It starts out with a little demonstration of proportional
Printing. This redefines the LPRINT command, so it will conflict
with your use of a printer. I haven’t found this to be any оо
in the types of programs I've used it in. Still, if there's
sufficient interest, it shouldn't be too hard to produce an add-on
program that inserts a "proportional print" channel, and attaches
it to an unused stream. This could allow your normal printer to
work Cin its normal mode) in conjection with proportional printing
on the screen. In the mean time, if your printer supports a COPY
function, that should work with this program, as is. |

In any case, LPRINT now. prints to the screen in proportional
mode, and PRINT continues to work like it always does, so хез: вап
mix BOTH methods in. your program at once. .However, both maintain
their own separate screen lacations;,so you can easily print to
different parts of the screen with each. о

For proportional screen positioning, you can use LPRINT AT and
LPRINT TAB commands. However, note that the old AT and TAB

functions use screen positions that assume all characters are 8

pixels wide. This would never do for proportional printing, so when.

you use AT or TAB with LPRINT, you specify the X and Y locations in
PIXELS, not in characters. This means you can place your characters
anywhere you want on the screen, right down to the pixel level. The
BASIC program, from lines 3030 on give a reasonable demonstration
of how it works. | Т

The YOUR SPECTRUM article also included а font designer
program, which is included here, but this is optional. To move the
cursor, use the ©, à, O, and P keys. Use M and М to turn a pixel on
or off. F keeps the design, D displays a character, U displays the
entire character set and S and J save and load the character set.
LOAD іп а SAVEd character set to the main program with LOAD "" CODE
64208. Once loaded into the proportional print program, you can
save the program and fonts together, and never bother with the
fonts again. |

The proportional printing fonts require one new thing we never
worried about before; you have to specify how many pixel wide your
character is. To do this, you design your character to touch the
right most border of the В x В character block you're given. Then,
in the top row of pixels, you set each pixel that’s in a valid
column for that character. Thus, if your character is to be five
pixels wide, simply set the right most 5 pixels in the top row
(those won't be printed оп the screen, don't worry). Don’t forget
to include one or more pixels for the spacing between characters!
In the "standard" character set, I've chosen to have only one pixel
width of space between characters, and a "blank space" character is
4 pixels wide. This works fairly nicely, but you can change it to
suit your needs. |

А small sample of proportional printing is included here.
Won’t that look nice in your next program?

NOTES from Editor: A big thanks to Wes, With all Wes does, and іё
is e lot folks, Wes finds time to do projects for us, Tire Designs,
answer a lota pail, write programs, find tine for family and of
coarse his employer. ALL of the TS family benefits fro» the
generosity of Wes and all the others who contribute their valuable
time and talents to their aser group and newsletters and BBSs. If
yoa like being on the receiving end of the efforts of others, and
do not contribute time, talent or sweat to the efforts of a aser
group, newsletter or BBS, there will soon be fewer or no sources of
information. Several UGs and many BBSs have quit over the past
year, several newsletters have reduce their павье” of issues and no
replacements are in sight. Wake up folks, smell the coffeer and
lend a hand before it is too late. `

The proportional printing program will be Uploaded to BUBBS andar
name of WESPPP.BAS. The font program may be uploaded at а later
date. Data on BUBBS: (6072693-3359-7 days-24hours a day- 300 baud on
from Spm to 9am weekdays, 24 hours weekends-free.

On pages 7 thru 10 of this issue, as in earlier issues, we are
running a printout of the TS2068 ROM disassembly by Wes Brzozowski.
We are running extra copies of each page of the ROM Disassembly
that we may offer members at the conculsion of the printout a
complete set. With this issue we have nine sheets or 18 pages of
printout. биг extra copy run is set at 50, it will be made
available on a first come first serve basis with а minimial
donation requested to cover postage. · -7%

7

10 REM Program to perform Prop
ortional Printings.

15 REM An upgraded version or
an entry in “YOUR SPECTRUM", Nov

20 REM Changes include - Modif
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tter fonts, and works as in OVER
Q, instead of OUER 1

25 REM Uhen you RUN this Progr
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30 REM Uhen THAT Program is гу

all LPRINT statements wilt do
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48 REM AT and TAB are supporte
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50 REM It will also be possibl
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710 REM Now that the machine co
de is in, we'll derive +; i compr
essed fonts from the Stainaard Ti
1009 LET ddf =PEE

addr =PEEK .236064256 PEE
К 23607+256+8: LET daddr-64208
1010 FOR czi1 TO 95
1020 LET sminz16
1030 FOR хх1 TO 8
з Д («РЕЕК addr: LET addr xa
1050 IF («16 THEN LET 5:16:
0 1090 16: GO T

1060 IF («32 THEN . G
рев. LET s=8: GO TO

1070 IF (<64 THEN : с
1090 EN LET sz4: GO ТО

1075 IF (<128 TH =2:
1992 EN LET sz2: GO Т

1922 TE etsa
5<5тіп THEN sminss

1100 NEXT x j MER

1110 LET addrzadar-a8

1120 FOR x=i TO 8

1130 POKE daddr, (PEEK addr) жетіп

1140 LET addrzaddre«i: LET дадага

ааадаг +1

1150 NEXT x

1160 LET smin=3: LET daddr-daadr
-8

1170 FOR xz1 TO S

1180 LET szO. LET (rzPEEK daddr:
LET daddr=daddr+i: IF rzQ THEN G
O TO 1220

1190 IF ABS (r»;2-INT (Сг /9Ә))».1 Т
HEN GO TO 1219

1200 LET s=84+1i: LET (xINT (r;z«.
1): GO TO 1190

1210 IF s«smin THEN LET sminss
1220 NEXT x

1225 IF smin=8 THEN LET sminzi
1226 LET 4:2%(5тіп-1)-1: IF Smin
=1 THEN LET а-д

1230 POKE daddr-8,4

1240 NEXT c

1250 POKE 64200,15

1260 FOR jz64201 TO 64207: POKE
Ja NEXT 3

2000 BEEP .25,1: BEEP .25,15: BE

EP .25,1: BEEP .25,15

2010 SAVE CHRS 253«CHR$ 245+CHRSE
84"ING"«CHR$ 2357"YOU" LINE 308

e

2020 SAVE CHR$ 232«CHRS 204+CHR§S
2274"THE -—4CHR$ 175 CODE 64209,
1160

2025 RANDOMIZE USR 64970

2030 GO SUB 8000

2048 STOP

зге CLEAR 64199: LORD ""CODE

3010 RANDOMIZE USR 54970

3029 GO SUB 8900

3838 LPRINT

3040 LPRINT "You can now NEU the
BASIC Portion ашач; “ :

3050 LPRINT “This Wilt Turn Off

the proportional printing..." .

3060 LPRINT "But you can turn it
on again, With”

3070 LPRINT TAB 60; “RANDOMIZE US
R 64970"

38808 STOP

вове CLS PRINT "This iS ап єха

mpte of the boringotd Printing.
What eise could wewant?”

8010 LPRINT AT 8,50;"“Wetl, we СО
ULD wish for proportional Printi

ng; °

8820 LPRINT “Look how neat it is
, and hou easy it is 10 read'"
8030 LPRINT "...Then, Count hou
many additional characters ue
can get on a tine.”

8040 LPRINT

8050 LPRINT "REMEMBER...these ch
aracters are the SAME IZE
as.the Standard Timex character
set. Ontythe spacing between the
f has been changed!!!"

. 8868 RETURN

is an example of the boring
What else could we

This
Old printing.
want?

ueil, we COULD wish for proporlona printrss,
Look how neat it is, and how easy it is to read
e» Then, count how marry additional characters
we can get on a Line.

REMEMBÉR. these characters are the SAME
SIZE as the standard Timex character set. Only
the spacing between them has been Changed!

Optional Font Designer Program

10 CLEAR 39999
20 LET ba-i0000
100 PRINT AT 2,

2; NEDGEPENDUM -
110 FOR fz3 TO 10: PRINT HT Ұ,3

: |: NEXT
420 PRINT AT 11.3;"
130 LET а=@: LET ь-д
200 OVER 1:

PRINT AT а+3,ь+4; “ЖИ

“> PAUSE 2: PRINT AT а+3,Ь+4; "MÁ"
PAUSE 2: OUER O

210 LET aza«(INKEYSz"a" AND a«7
)-К(ІМКЕҮ%-"4" AND а20) |
220 LET b=b+(INKEYS="p" AND b<7
)-(INKEYS&z"O" AND b20)

238 IF INKEY$="m" THEN PRINT AT
a+3,b+4; INVERSE 1;"X": PLOT b+

160, (8-а) +151

240 IF INKEYs$="n" THEN PRINT AT

a*3,b«4;"O":
60, (3-а) +151
250 IF ІМКЕҮ$="(" THEN GO TO
260 IF INKEY$="d" THEN GO TO
E riis IF INKEY$z"u" THEN GO TO
27% IF INKEY$="s" THEN GO ТО
— n IF INKEY$=" j" THEN GO ТО

2
298 GO TO 200

PLOT INVERSE 1;b

+1
зе
40
S58
102
is

4779 INPUT “Which Character? ";c

310 IF LEN c$«»1 THEN GO TO 302
320 IF CODE с%<32 OR CODE с58212
7 THEN GO TO 388

330 LET czCODE cs

340 FOR

f= TO 7

350 POKE (с-32) +8 + ғ +Ььа ,РЕЕК (16

468+ (ғ #256) ) :

NEXT f:
400 INPUT “Which Character?

RUN
i =

5
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C$«328 OR CODE с%›12
7 THEN GO TO 402 ips

430 POKE 23606, 64:
SS: PRINT AT 2,20; cs:

POKE 23607.1
POKE 23695

‚©: POKE 23607,60

440 FOR azO TO 7:

450 IF POINT

1 THEN PRINT RT a+3,b+4;
GO TO 470

e к> жый.

FOR ь= TO 7
(b+16@, (8-8) +151) =
INVERSE

450 PRINT AT а+3,6+4; "0"
та

470 NEXT b: N

460 LET a=@:

127:
NEXT

CHRS f;:

7,60: PRINT "

POKE 23606,0:
ма. MEAS 2
POKE 23606,0:

LET
b=:
500 PRINT AT 15.0:;:

GO TO 200
FOR f=32 TO

COUNTY BRIGHT 1;CHRS Г; “;

501 PRINT АТ 15,0; "
FOR f=32 TO 127:
POKE 23607,155:

"52. OVER 1:
POKE 23606,64:
PRINT BRIGHT 1;
POKE 2360
OVER Ø
POKE 23607,60

510 BEEP .1,1: PRU :
bagi А SE ©: PAUSE O

1000 INPUT “File Name? ";f$:
E fSCODE 40003,758: RUN SEN

1020 INPUT “Fite Nane?
D fSCODE «00900,7608: RUN

";f$: LOA

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RS232 PORT ADDED TO TIMEX 2858 MODEM CARD
Construction

To add the RS232 Port to the 2050 Moder Card requires the addition of
two IC's, a four pole double throw switch and à 9 volt battery. Component
Boy tna is not critical and I found that all parts can be mounted on à saall
PC board and piggy-backed on the top of the aodem card. Select an area of the
card where there are no modem components and drill two small holes using care
not to cut any circuit traces on the board. A large enough area exists next
to the B251 (U2), this is where I mounted the рас board. Next, using
an Exacto-Knife, cut the copper circuits at the B2 (U2) at pin 3 (RÅD), in
17 (CTS) and pin 22 (DSR). These are the three input lines to the 8251. Using
a very fine point soldering iron, solder wires directly to the pins on the
8251 where he cuts were made. The other end of the wires are connected to
the operating points of the four pole double throw switch as indicated in the
wiring ا‎ One side of the switch is then wired to the pins 1,4 and 11
on UB and the other side is connected to the MC1489 R5232 line receiver.
Next solder wires in the same manner to pins 19, 23 and 24 of the 8251 (U2).
Connect the other end of the wires to the MC1488 RS232 line driver as shown
in the diagram. The 8251 output signals are not switched and ao the RS232
driver and modem. Абс wires to the vo tage points, I -picked up the +5 volts
at jumper W2 and +9 volts at the + side of C19. The ground connection can
come ігоа any of the large plated areas on the board. je add the RS232
cable or connector. I used a 25 pin D-connector and the standard RS232
configuration. This will allow connection to a wide variety of devices such
as external modems or serial interfaces on printers. Carefully check all
connections for solder bridges or wire shorts. Xe

,

Circuit Description

The MC1488 Driver and MC1489 Receiver provide a conversion from RS232

‘voltage levels (+15 to -15) to TTL levels (@ to +5). THree input and three

output lines are connected to the 8251, four are control signals and two are
data. To rovide the minus R5232 level, a 9 volt batter s used. This will
eliminate the necessity of an added power su ply. The МС1489 line receiver
requires a +5 volt source. This is connected to the aodes card but the +5
volts is supplied by the Timex/Sinclair 2868 or T/S1008.

Checkout

The А5232 Port can Бе tested yi a cable wrap method. At the А5232
connector, jumper RXD to TXD ,RTS to CES and DTR to DSR. Load and run Місга
Saart 11. Do a manual connect operation. The CONNECT prompt should app=ar.
Then type characters in the FULL DUPLEX aode and the characters should echo
to the screen as іп half duplex mode only now the data is actually being
transmitted and then received by the 8251. If all of these indications are
observed then you are ready to connect to an RS232 device.

Operation

When using the RS232 Port, some of the aodea circuits are left
connected, therefore it is recommended that the phone cord be disconnected
from the modem to prevent disruption of hone service. The 6251 aust be
initialized with scftware. When Mtera Smart II is started, the mode and
control characters ire sent to the 8251. The software then checks the
conditions of the €251 to see if the proper handshaking ym are present.
The CTS line must be active for the for the 8251 to transei data. This is an
internal operation of the 6251 and cannot be bypassed. If your RS232 device
is not capable of activating the CTS signal then jumper the RTS to CTS at the
RS232 connector. The software will also check the state of the DSR line, if
your serial device does not support this line then jumper ОТА to DSR. Both
software and device must be set at the same baud rate and coaaunication
parameters, such as 8 data bits, 1 stop bit and no parity.

Ccaputer to computer communications

To use the R5232 іо communicate directly with another eri pe! пурата: пә
modems, the RXD and TXD lines must be passes at one end of the cable. This
will make the TXD гї computer A become the RXD at кезү В and the RXD at
computer A become TXL at computer B. Both computers sust be set at the саар
baud rate and coemunication parameters.

10

RS232 PORT ADDED TO TIMEX 2058 MODEM CARD

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NOTES ON OPERATION
WHEN NOT IN USE, S1 SHOULD BE SET TO MODEM TO PREVENT BATTERY DRAIN

Dave Schoenwetter

DICNONNECT PHONE LINE WHEN USING RS232 PORT.
DISCONNECT RS232 CABLE WHE

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Reprinted from the Sept/Oct issue of the SINC-LINK

TS2088 Colour Printouts
by Jeff Taylor

Almost every user has, ai one time or
another, wished he could capture his
work in colour. However, most colour
printer prices would deter the average
home enthusiast. Now, thanks to an inge-
Nious new interface, colour printouts
of both text and pictures can be had for
an affordable cost.

John McMichael, of Laramie, Wyoming,
has built an interface to mate a 752068
to a Commodore UIC-1520 plotter/printer.
Now before you start grumbling about us-
Ing the ‘competition’ remember that any
full-size printer you use is also the
‘competition’. Keep an open mind.

The 1520 ір a four colour Cblack,blue,
green,red) plotter which draws on a stan-
dard 4.5 inch wide roll of calculator
paper. While it won't do single Points,
it is capable of a single step to a reso-
lution of 0.2mm (сап you see the ditfer-
елсе?). The 1520 has 4 character sizes
(18,20,40 & 88 columns per Line),16 dash
sizes, SD degree character rotation and
upper and lower case character set which
matches all of the TS2888's when used
with the interface. >

Mr. McMichael's interface is a very
neat and professional looking printed
Circuit board containing Just four IC's
and one capacitor. As received,the board
has a keyed edge connector to fit in the
rear bus of the 752068, a б-ріп plug on
а 4-conductor cable to connect the plot-
ter and such useful details as onboard
strain relief ¢or the cable and even a
Plastic foot to prevent strain on the
edge connector.

He has also produced 2 software tapes.
The first is a driver/demo which In demo
mode will show the capabilities of the
plotter and in driver mode can be used
to build your oun plotter programs. The
second is a Screen to Plotter utility
Program which allows you to either draw
a freehand sketch on ty screen (keyboard
or Joystick) which the plotter matches
move for move or you load an existing
SCREENS picture of your own and trace it
on ty screen, the plotter following each
movement.

Prices for the interface range from
$14.95US for the bare board and drivery
demo tape ,%20.9505 for the kit of board,
parts and tape to $35.90US for the assem-
bled and tested unit with optional edge
connector and the demo tape. The util ity
tape is an additional $8.85.

The Printer/plotter, like the 752068,
Is an 'orphan' in that it was discont !n-
ued by Big C. It is still availabie here
In Toronto at most Woolco stores Chaggle
the price down, they are happy to move
them) and was reported at Active Surplus
Annex at 0$50.00. Commodore wiil service
the machine and parts, paper and pens
can be purchased from them, so you know
support is still around.

For more information contact: Mr. John
McMichael, 1718 Palmer Drive, Laramie,
Wyoming, USA, 82878. Send SAE and MO. .

I highly recommend this intertacey
plotter combination to those enthusiasts |
who seek colour printouts and plots at
an affordable price.

This review and these demo plots were
all produced by a 752058 on a UIC-1520
plotter/printer & a McMichael interface.

1
£
2

Ak

ALIAS УД,

——

1c 2E ha че. хаба vas

Amstrad compatibles - now available in Canada.

The British are here!

by Cathy Hilborn

TORONTO - Corporate
Canada's IBM compatible PC
choices expanded again when
Amstrad International, repor-
tedly Europe's largest computer
supplier, launched its XT-alter-
native PC1640 here last month.

Distributed in Canada through
AudioVisual Specialists (AVS) of
Montreal, Amstrad's PC1640 is
based on an 8 MHz 8086 with
640KB RAM. Its VLSI chips are

proprietary. Its BIOS was de-
Modi br Asi.

Standard features include an
nig ter supporting MDA, CGA
GA displays, a two-button
Modum with dedictated port, a

connector for a lightpen or joys-
tick and loudspeaker with vol-

ume control. The standard con-
figuration also includes three
full-size expansion slots, a serial
port, a parallel port and a clock/
calendar.

Bundled software includes Di-
gital Research Inc.'s СЕМ
(Graphics Environment Man-
ager), GEM Desktop, GEM
Paint, GEM-based Locomotive
Basic 2, and Microsoft-compati-
ble MOUSE.COM.

Suggested list price for the
whole kit and kaboodle, confi-

14

gured with single floppy and
monochrome display, is $1,499.
The top-of-the-line 20MB hard
drive and enhanced color moni-
tor, lists at $3,099.

Other Amstrad offerings avail-
able from AVS include: 10-inch

or 15-inch 9-pin printers and 10-
inch, 24-pin model.

Some 77 dealers representing
more than 100 retail outlets
across the — have already
Y up to et these offer-

ANS offers a one year parts
and labor warranty on the
Amstrad products. AVS,
founded eight years ago, now
employs 85 people and boasts a
foot head office fa-
cility in Montreal. Ten sales of-
fices stretching from Moncton,
N.B. to Penticton, B.C. supply
products to dealers across the
country.

International Data Corp.'s re-
search indicating Amstrad holds
32 per cent of the United King-
dom's PC market - ahead of IBM
which holds only 25 per cent.

wordprocessors worldwide, re-
ort sales of over US$500 mil-

lion.

PP КЕТЕ Жайка а аА ЕК АКЫ E TEED TES ETM MON EE AMR оа

TIMEX/SINCLAIR SALES
DROP

P Sales of the Timex 1000 (né Sinclair ZX81), once the

most popular home computer, have plunged. Orders for its
new 1500 and 2000 models are far less than projected. Timex,

which pioneered the super-cheap home computer and led in |

the pricing battles, sold 550,000 units in its first five months. :

Sinclair had sold 150,000 ZX81s before turning distribution
over to Timex. So far, well over a million units have been
manufactured.

The 1000 has sold for as low as $27.95, and typically sells
for about $45. The Commodore VIC-20, ТІ-99/4А, and Atari
400, which sell for only $30 to $40 more, offer color, more
memory, better keyboards, and more features. As a result,
they’ve hurt sales of the 1000, and many retailers have aban-
doned the unit. Even the Timex 1500, which generally sells
for about $80, does not stack up well against these units. And
the model 2000 is facing stiff competition from the somewhat
higher-priced Commodore 64, which has better keyboards,
graphics, and sound.

Timex has therefore begun selling its systems to mail order
companies and to companies that will package the unit with
encyclopedias and textbooks. Also, the units are being offered
by banks and real-estate developers as give-aways in sales pro-
motion programs.

In England, Sinclair has unveiled a continuous-loop tape
drive interface for its Spectrum color computer. It has an 85K
capacity and an average access time of 3.5 seconds, and sells

for $76, plus $7.50 for a tape cartridge. The unit is expected to |

be introduced in the U.S. for the Timex 2000 systems. The
drive requires a $50 interface unit (only $30 when purchased
with drive). The unit that is needed, which fits under the com-
puter, also provides an RS-232 port and local-area network
connection device.

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310 IF i£X-"8" THEH LET Ч=Ч+і- Ч
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Other than the fact it
brings together all the
facts % figures perti-
ment to telescopes, bi-
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used for Retronomy.

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T5 285383 and BSpBrtrui
computers. It Нанта" hg

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в REM TELESCOPE or CRHERA‏
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COPE or ASTROGHAPHT camera)
із PLOT 8,1567: GRAF 255,9

= LET A$ =< “HET SUITABLE VISUAL
x GEI i137 TELESCOPE THIS қын

25 БЕН ¢input aperturedf/ratio

Ен

28 PRINT “ырЕБТІНББЕІНО ="

ай INPUT яй: ІР RAE THEN co To
ай

58 PRINT INT а; My". "FOCAL RA
TIU = yy. IMPHUT F

БИ PRINT "FF "p

Ba

ББ REM formulas

535 LET H=INT A+2

188 IF H;>S88 THEN LET Н-580

iig LET VW=1.94+iINT (LH ініні1з112
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128 LET BH-IHT (285284/FL)

138 PRINT "F-LENHETH'",FL;" HH"
15&

135 HEM max/min вцврівгЕ powers

13H PAPER Б

148 PRINT INT (FL/L4.52;"HH FL
ЕН =", "X";L;" НІҢ POWER"

158 PRINT IHT :|FL/^Hzi82-idü; ‘HH
FL EH =", '"х';н; мая POWER"

154

155 REM flash scope comments
156

ЗЕЙ IF L 2H THEN PRINT FLASH i
THC TO 18) AS

178 INPUT “Re
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1 )

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(e

210 LET e-ü:
155 REM Photo dats S30 IF INKÉYS
135 NEN 22 E 220 LET a#=THEK
198 PAPER 5: PRINT ..“БІНТЕ Б 240 IF ag="q"
; CHRS ; 4 P
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248 PRINT "LIMIT UIS HOG 0 318 IF аз-СнБя
EF 1: GO TO 26a
£4 Е 328 IF as$-"c"
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245 338 IF gE" yr
258 FOR N=1 ТП Б STEP 1.5 T xsx-1: LET uz
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z",BiH; "ММ = x"; INT (FLÁ/B/ND T Жжах+1: [ЁТ шы
z78 HEET Ы: PRES 7 358 IF a£-"n"
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2883 E 2g
10 БЕМ Prete Cars Shift and 440 PLOT OVER
fee Fede ee Е 450 LET s-POIH
| up down.right & Lert 450 IF &-1 THE
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— =; Tr ae
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ii z= mo Ег: iit: LI PRI i H i 2
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30 Qreeteir than i"
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for drawing" ша Р mici TH
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January 1988

Mon Tue Ued Thu Fri Sat Sun
3

4 5 6 7 rs 10

11 12 13 4 17

13 19 29 21 22 55 24

25 26 27 28 29 зе 31
————LSLS À—X M

February 1988
Mon Tue (ед Thu Fri Sat Sun

i 3 4

8 9 10 11 14
15 16 17 18 2а 21
23 24 25 26 27 28

March 1988

Mon ve Ved hu fi Sat Sun
5—5

т а 10 e i2 13

14 1S 15 17 19 29

21 22 23 24 25 26 27

28 29 3а 31

Яргі 1988

May 1988

Mon ve Ved hu Fri Sat un
i

2 3 4 5 7 а

9 19 11 іг Кє, 14 15

16 17 18 19 21 22

23 24 25 26 27 28 29

20 31

June 1988

ve Ued Thu Fri Sat

1 12
is i 9
23 24 25 26

July 1988
Mon ve Wed hu Fri Sat Sun
i 2
a 5 6 7 а 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
13 19 29 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31

August 1988

is кім ыды St Sun Mon ve Ued hu fi Sat Sun
Р 3
4 5 6 7 9 19 e _. ES 6 4
11 12 13 14 Q 16 27 е a 10 11 12 13 14
ипе“ інінійң
238 МЕХ
ig ANPUT “Year 19° 519 L
ze LET desi 2583 CATA '
ЗО FOR a=1981 TO iS38804u-1 Ба рата
40 IF а/4-ІМТ (2/4) AND ауізда 278 рата
<ЭІМТ із/1000)1 THEN LET d=d4+368: 250 DATA
со TO вә К кәс гата
ER MB uoces зае DATA
А ЧЕ ж тал ,
70 REM d is no of days since M 250 Ды
ondau 151 .anuaru i238 338 Бата
ae LET &zd-7zIMHT id; } зад гата
log FOR Ші Ta 12 asa CATA
110 READ ms. L 36a D
115 IF Ч/4-ІМмТ (u74) AND m$="Fe се CATA
bruary' THEN LET {1 =29 _
i28 PRINT TAB lom.” “198844
121 ІРБІМТ TAB i2;mz; “) 1333+
1309 PRINT "
131 ІРБІМТ p
140 PRINT “Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
Sat Sun” |
141 LPRINT “Mon Tue Ued Thu Fri
sat oun"
log PRINT "
151 LPRIHT p
168 FOR а=1 TO tft
165 POKE 23532,255 БЕ
loo IF ІМКЕУ%-"Һ” THEN PAUSE Ø
178 PRINT TAB esá4;z;
171 LPRINT TAB €#4; 4;
180 LET eze-ci
1909 IF е-? THEN LET eze
200 НЕХТ a
ЕӘС PRINT
226 LPRINT
210 PRINT e
211 LPRINHT "
220 PRINT : PRINT : PRINT
ЕБІ ІРБІМТ LPRIHT LPRIHT

13

September 1988

ue Ued Thu at Su

1 t

5 6 7 8 e 11
12 13 14 #15 17 18
19 28 21 5

26 27 28 29

October 1988

Mon Tue Ued Thu Fri sat sun

RCM RE. OG акан
22% s 4. $ B8 9
le 11 12 13 @ 15 16
17 18 19 20 ЭТ 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Novermber 1988

on ve Ved hu fi at un
7 а 9 jø ep 12 13
14 15 16 17 19 29
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 39

December 1988

Mon ve Wed at

3
5 6 7 19 11
12 13 14 17 18
18 29 21 23 24 25
26 27 28 58 38 31

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